‘After Blue’ by UEA alumnus Luke Allan has been awarded second prize in the 2020 Bridport International Poetry Competition. A graduate of the BA in English Literature with Creative Writing, Luke is a former managing editor at Carcanet Press and PN Review. He received a Northern Promise Award in 2011 and was a finalist in the […]
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New Networks for Nature 2020 Meeting
Our New Networks for Nature 2020 Meeting is taking place online, hosted by UEA. Join us live on the afternoon of Saturday 14 November for an online discussion responding to two pre-recorded panels: • ‘New Perspectives on Nature Writing’, featuring Jessica J. Lee, Mona Arshi and Jean McNeil • ‘States of Emergency’, featuring James Thornton, […]
Tank
An extract from Lauren Mooney’s novel in progress, Tank (working title), for middle-grade readers. Chapter one The note was on the door when Freya got home from school: F – Come to no. 47 – Mrs G It was a hot day a few weeks before the summer holidays and Freya’s pea-green uniform was […]
The Illustrated Child
An extract from The Illustrated Child, published in the UK in October 2020 by HarperCollins HQ (and as The Book Of Hidden Wonders in the US and Australia). The oar made a slap, slapping sound as it hit the water, dipping into the soup-like moat and coming back covered in slime. There was a […]
The Illustrated Child by Polly Crosby
The Illustrated Child is the debut novel by UEA writer Polly Crosby and is published in the UK by HarperCollins HQ this week. It was published earlier this year in the US and Australia as The Book Of Hidden Wonders . Polly is a current part-time student on the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction), where she […]
The Wolf Road by Richard Lambert
The Wolf Road is the debut YA novel by UEA alumnus Richard Lambert and is published by Everything With Words this week. Richard graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2010 and published his debut collection of poetry, Night Journey, in 2012. His second collection, The Nameless Places, was published by Arc in 2017 and was […]
Inside the Beautiful Inside by Emily Bullock
Inside the Beautiful Inside is the new novel by UEA alumna Emily Bullock and is published by Everything With Words this week. Emily graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2004 and published her debut novel, The Longest Flight, with Myriad Editions in 2015. This was shortlisted for the Cross Sports Book […]
Trevor Wood wins CWA New Blood Dagger
The Man on the Street by UEA Creative Writing alumnus Trevor Wood has won the 2020 Crime Writers Association (CWA) John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award, an award for the best crime novel by a first-time author. Trevor graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Crime Fiction) in 2017 and published The Man On The Street with […]
JY Yang shortlisted for British Fantasy Awards
The Ascent to Godhood by UEA graduate JY (Neon) Yang has been shortlisted in the Novella category of the 2020 British Fantasy Awards. Earlier this year it was nominated for the Locus Science Fiction Foundation Awards. The novella, part of the Tensorate silkpunk fantasy series, was published by Tor last year. Neon (pictured) graduated from […]
Art, Memoir and Jung by Juliet Miller
Art, Memoir and Jung: Personal and Psychological Encounters by UEA alumna Juliet Miller is published by Routledge this month. Juliet is trained as a Jungian Analyst and Psychotherapist, and graduated from the UEA MA in Life Writing in 2011, when she was the recipient of the Lorna Sage Memorial Prize for her work on the […]
